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Direct link to the article Comparing Styling Methods in 2020
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Comparing Styling Methods in 2020

Over on Smashing, Adebiyi Adedotun Lukman covers all these styling methods. It’s in the context of Next.js, which is somewhat important as Next.js has some specific ways you work with these tools, is React and, thus, is a components-based …

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Chris Coyier on Oct 20, 2020
Direct link to the article style9: build-time CSS-in-JS
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style9: build-time CSS-in-JS

In April of last year, Facebook revealed its big new redesign. An ambitious project, it was a rebuild of a large site with a massive amount of users. To accomplish this, they used several technologies they have created and open-sourced, …

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Johan Holmerin on Jul 29, 2020
Direct link to the article Tradeoffs and Shifting Complexity
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Tradeoffs and Shifting Complexity

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This is a masterclass from Dave:

After you hit the wall of unremovable complexity, any “advances” are a shell game, making tradeoffs that get passed down to the user … you get “advances” by shifting where the complexity lives.

You …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Jul 15, 2020
Direct link to the article CSS2JS
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CSS2JS

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To add inline styles on an element in JSX, you have to do it in this object syntax, like:

<div style={{
  fontSize: 16,
  marginBottom: "1rem"
}}Content
</div

That might look a little weird to us folks who are so …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Mar 20, 2020
Direct link to the article Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

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Brent Jackson says CSS utility libraries failed somewhat:

Eventually, you’ll need to add one-off styles that just aren’t covered by the library you’re using, and there isn’t always a clear way to extend what you’re working with. Without a clear

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Mar 12, 2020
Direct link to the article The Unseen Performance Costs of Modern CSS-in-JS Libraries
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The Unseen Performance Costs of Modern CSS-in-JS Libraries

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This article is full of a bunch of data from Aggelos Arvanitakis. But lemme just focus on his final bit of advice:

Investigate whether a zero-runtime CSS-in-JS library can work for your project. Sometimes we tend to prefer writing

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Feb 13, 2020
Direct link to the article What I Like About Writing Styles with Svelte
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What I Like About Writing Styles with Svelte

There’s been a lot of well-deserved hype around Svelte recently, with the project accumulating over 24,000 GitHub stars. Arguably the simplest JavaScript framework out there, Svelte was written by Rich Harris, the developer behind Rollup. There’s a lot …

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Ollie Williams on Oct 23, 2019
Direct link to the article The Differing Perspectives on CSS-in-JS
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The Differing Perspectives on CSS-in-JS

Some people outright hate the idea of CSS-in-JS. Just that name is offensive. Hard no. Styling doesn’t belong in JavaScript, it belongs in CSS, a thing that already exists and that browsers are optimized to use. Separation of concerns. …

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Chris Coyier on Aug 13, 2019
Direct link to the article The Many Ways to Include CSS in JavaScript Applications
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The Many Ways to Include CSS in JavaScript Applications

Welcome to an incredibly controversial topic in the land of front-end development! I’m sure that a majority of you reading this have encountered your fair share of #hotdrama surrounding how CSS should be handled within a JavaScript application.

I …

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Dominic Magnifico on Jul 8, 2019
Direct link to the article Responsible JavaScript
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Responsible JavaScript

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We just made a note about this article by Jeremy Wagner in our newsletter but it’s so good that I think it’s worth linking to again as Jeremy writes about how our obsession with JavaScript can lead to accessibility and …

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Shared by Robin Rendle on Apr 3, 2019
Direct link to the article Web Standards Meet User-Land: Using CSS-in-JS to Style Custom Elements
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Web Standards Meet User-Land: Using CSS-in-JS to Style Custom Elements

The popularity of CSS-in-JS has mostly come from the React community, and indeed many CSS-in-JS libraries are React-specific. However, Emotion, the most popular library in terms of npm downloads, is framework agnostic.

Using the shadow DOM is common when …

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Ollie Williams on Mar 17, 2019
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